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BRIGHTON, OCT. 3. A General Court Martial, for the trial of Cap tain Ellman, ot the centre hattahon of the Sussex. - Local Alitia, was vesteiday opened at the ,Castle.. and which 'consisted of Lord' Biook, of the War wick Militia, President, one Field Officer ae.A two Captain. re the Royal Scotch GiouCester Militia ;' one. Fidel Officer and two Captains of the Oxford Militia ; two Captains of the Warwick Militia ; two . Captains of the Leicester Militia and one Field ()dicer arid one Captain ofthe Ve‘retisey battalion'Of tie Local Militia. Brigade Major Reynolds, JUdge Athocate. Captain Ellman was attended by his Counsel and Solicitor, Mr. Horn and Mr. Hoper. The charges preferred against him by his Com . mander, Lieutenatit-Col. Graham, were as under First-. For disobedience of orders of his Grace the Duke of Norfolk. a. Lord Lieutenant of the County of Sussex, in - not stepaiiing to the head-qnarters of his regiment, on the 17th of Se, , tember, gueeably to the public notice advertised on the 3d of September, in the public county papers Second.- For disobedience of orders, in refusing to join his regiment on the 17th of Ssptember, as expressly directed to him so to do,,by Lieureirant-Lolonel s Graham, as Coinmand - ant of the said' regiment, by a letter under date- Sept. 7th, 1 8 1 0, to that purport. and acknowledged by him to have been received being breaches ot the Articles ot War. It appeared by . the opening address of Co/oriel Graham, that Captain Ellman bad been originally balketel to serve in the Pevensey-battalion of Lecal Militia ; to avoid Which, he had paid the fine, and subsequently selicited and obtained a Lieutenancy _in tie centre battalion of the : Local Militia, when the fine previously Paid had been returned to him ; that he had preferred holding a commission in the centre battalion to that of l'evensey, in CQUSC quepee of their mustering-point being nearer to his business and residence at Glynde-; that he had af terwards the honour of obtaining . a Captain's com mission, partly through the interest of Culoael Gra hatn.; but that on finding the mustering poi nt ot the battalion had been changed from that of Lewes to Brighton, he would fain hare exchanged his cora misiion for one its the Pevensey battalion ; but. not succeeding accordant to his wishes, he bad tendered his r, signation, which resignation had not been ac cepted ; that his neglecting to join his regiment at Brighton followed,, which, occasioned• him to be put under annrrest, and ultimately brought to trial. The correspondence that took place, between Co lonel Graham and captain .Ellman,- on the subject, ' of the tendered reignatibn, was fully explained, and the leasers read in Court by. ale Colonel. It appeared that the latter had strongly recom mended ti) Captain Ellman to bestow the .required attentions - to, his military duties, as theconsequelices of hi. neglea must necessarily prove very unplea sant to hiuis: If ; but that his retnonstrancei and per suasions had proved-ineffectual.. The case the Colonel observed, was certainly de serviig of the most serious - Consideration of the Court, as lie bad strong reasons for believing that not less than six subaltern officers of the Sussex centre Local battalion were awaiting the result. of the investigation,, thit their cuticle& might .be regulated thereby, in regard to their owu corn rnis4orls. The first charge was substantiated by the man date of ffie Lord Lieutenant, as ' advertised in the Lewes Journal, which was read ; and alio-confirma tion of the nun-attendance ao his duties, of Captain Elltuan, on the 17th of September; by - the Adju tant of the regiment, Capt. Agar, The prisoner hereupon enquired Whet heethe man. date of ;he Lord Lieutenant could be considered as applying, to him, 4s commissioned officers. of• the corps were not therein mentioned ? which - question the Judge Advocate told him he might reserve for his defence. To establish the second charge, Capt. Agar prov ed that the notice to attend his military.deties on the 7th of September, had, at the express desire of Colonel Graham, been transmitted to. Capt. Ell ; man by Elia), the Adjutant, - but to which he had re ceived no written answer; though after he had put the Captain under an arrest, which happened on Friday, the 28 t h of September, he, the Captain, had acknowledged .h:s having received it. The let ter, or notice, a copy of which was sent to Cap tain Ellman, by Captain Agar, was read by the Judge Advocate. The Earl of Chichester gave evidence on the se cond charge, in which it appeared that Colonel Gra ham, in cne or two conver,ations which. he had had .with his Lordship, had stated various particulars te specting Capt Ellman's cctiduCt, and had expressed a hope that the Captam would not urge matters to extremities; that his Lordship had declined parti- Cularly inteitering on the sobjea, but had obi served that he could not encourage any otficer to exchange from one regiment to another, without the sanction of his Colonel and the Lord Lieuten ant. His Lordship, on being interrogated by the prisoner to that effeet, did not recollect to have had any application from Capt. Ellman's father, on the suojett of his son's quitting the centre battalion, but he did with Colonel Thomas, and to whon, he had given nearly the same answer as he had previously done to Colonel Graham. George Hoper, E.q. 'being sworn, admitted that. Colonel Graham-had had a long. conversation with' him on the subject matter between the Colonel and Captain, though he did not consider the conversati , • on as having the extent of his being regarded as a mediator between them—The Court was here or dered to be .cleared of strangers; and on their be ing again admitted, Mr. Hoper was further ques tioned, though the general conversation at the time alluded to, between him and Colonel Graham, had been deemed by the Court as irrelevant ; Mr. • Hoper, therefore, merely further deposed, that he had, some days after, mentioned what had passed to Capt. -Elltnan, but that it had, not influenced, or apiwared to have.any etre& upon him. Here the Court - was adjourned until this day, when it was re-opened at eleven o'clock, and Mr. Ellin:in, the prisoner's father was swore: To a qtiesi.)on fiotu Colonel Graham, as to his having told him that if his son did not attend to his mili tary duties, lie must report him to. the General—a LONDON :" Printed by RICHARD HARRIS, of No. 4, Martlett-court, bow-street ; and Pubi the Slibi*OFFlClip 140. In, Strand, where Alrertizements, Orders for 1 injury of the ,stiivice, which be, hid n o t f a il e d f r rt cotrounicate to the Lord Lieutenant ; none of, the, resignations tendered therefore had ben accepted, and no Officer had a right to expect, uoder such cir • cutimattees, that an exception would be made in his' favour. The Colonel read a letter ,w hich he had 'received front the Duke of Norfolk, after the closing of the Court yesterday, approving of his (the Colonel's) con duct throughout this affair, and, if we heard rightly, observing, that the calling out r o f the COmmissioned‘ Officers when the battalion received orders to be embodied, rested not with the Lord, Lieutenant, but with the Commandant of the Corps, and thereby of course xonetating Captain Ellman, completely from the effects of the first charge. • The Court was ordered to be cleared as soon as Colonel Graham had concludeed; that they . might proceed to their decision, the result of which will not, be made known until after it has received his Majesty's-sanction. • At four o'clock this afternoon the Local Mikia • were reviewed on the slope of the Down, to the Notili of this place, by PeneralliOustoun. . . . • vithout fai}l conviction. .Silence was obtained ‘c I ,h " great .diffiAl er culiy fin such an immense:crowd. which, M. Sicard caused several of, dealr— d . ar diunb pupils to speak. • Vidor spoke eh ." of midtty and difficulty, having so long l us t the use speech ; lie read with pain and great hesitatiotq te a book which was procur e d f or t he pur pose. ' do broke off: , observing, that hi s f ee li ngs v‘ ere strong to sillier him to proceed. When the Abb l . observed that the Prefect o f th e P o li ce had give n one of his shirts to the young man, who was ab s ? : lutely naked, and other cl o thi ng a l so , h e being., l :. great distress, a collecti o n was ma d e i n his fav ° "; ) This had a great effect : on him. Victor observe d t ° the Abbe that he had so ent i re l y ac custo m himself to the illusions of his part ' that he had".l l ; learned his hearing, H e d escr ib e d as on e of t d most powerful profs to which his conalancY L a been put, an experiment practised on him in Sal t ieriand.' I was in a room, under I.v interrogail' d said he, “.hero had • been p rev i ous ly susperwe' t unknown to me, immediately behi n d Me, a g re " i s vase full of copper money, suddenlythe cord w a cut, and the whole came tumbling down with a P ro i digious clatter.—Yet not the slightest indicatian_.° , any emotion was di s c overa bl e i n ' my countenanc':i Such was the terminati o n o f a d ecept i on w hich ituposeil on parts of ,Germany, 'Switzerland, it 3l) : Spain, and Franc e ! Th e p ens o f P ar i s are .p r elo7 , memoirs of this singular raring than ; he has lu it nishedsthe materials during hi s l ong d e t en tion • is revolted that they will contain uncommon ide s' and very interesting adventures. A magnificent dinner was given on Wednesday AI • ti praycot-house„by Lady TIL NEY L ONG , in ho n our her daughter's coming. of age. Amongst the Coir pany present were Lord C. SomEusET, Hon. Ai r a 'WINDSOR, Mr. CODRINGTON, Mr. METHUEN a ll family, .Mr. B. DICKENSoN,, Mr. CaAwFogb, S lc ; A tine ox was roasted whole, and distributed ail ; the populace, with profusion of strong beer. In t ; evening,,the pl easure groun d s were l ig h te d w ith [legated lamps ; a neat transparency ornanleh le the centre of the house, and a grand displJy of 6 1; works concluckd the entertainments of , the EDP , computed that upwards of 5000 persons wer e present. Ihefestivities will continue the whole o f the:week. 13UON A PARTE'S family are destined to be the ster n : est commentators upon his policy, the severest crit ic ': upon his life. They afford, in their own persons'. and by their ow n act i ons , t h e c l earest ev id en ce t"; his tyranny is intolerable, even to them s elves.-- - C 113 9 has abdicated a th rone , p re f err i ng t h e life n" , , e , exile to all the h o n ours h is b rot h er cou ld best°, upon him. A se con d rema i ns a pr i soner i n t he 1 111Uit of an enemy's country, a Ki ng , w i t h out the P°'4,l of a King ; fearful of thrusting timtelf in the to" -I ' of his subjects, desirous of th row i ng of f t he ri'h es of royalty, but obliged still to be the poppet a h ot instrument of his brother, and seeking in the vice drunkenness a s h or t o bli v i on o f h is apprehensi °/i; and his cares. A third, to whom N4PoLEot4 o , e o , every thing, proclaims t hat h e i s unsa f e i n minions, and flies for protection to the very P°`, c o , which 13UOAPAIITE is fightingagainst,. t hus fort"' st ,ing the severest r ef u t a ti on o f. hi s. calumnies ag3i`l us. One only of his family, J EROME, seems 10 c l . p 4 to NAPOLEON—an union ce oented by a congeni 3- tl of vice—both having repudiated their wives. Bges.—A Gentleman, la4t Meath, walking ttl hi flower garden, had his attention arrested by tbe f be lowing curious circumstance large wild 1 :',1 1 observed to go into one of the' bi : e hi ves, from o f in less than a minute,. he v.6s expelled by three of the hive bees, who . brought hi m ' out abd. left ' l ' - o a The intruder, however, made a secon d a ssay, „ was .again ejected by the rightful owners of the nement ; but, notwithstanding the two fair o' ir to logs be had received, he returned a third thud 3 , the assault, and entered th e. p rem i es. 'Die , bitantsos it is conceived, now thought it high " 1 0 to punish him for . his temerity; which they did'g four of them brou g ht hi m out d ea d ; and lovri.n laid him at.the extre t nity of `the:stone on which bi hive stood, returned to their habitation. A law for the suppression of Duelling has P:'` ed in the Illinnois territory, in America, founde - , 0, , the Virginia code. The punishment of the survtr, duelist (if his antagonist die. w i t hi n t h ree month s f, the alders,. abettors, and counsellor s thereof, to 5t1 ..0 (Cr death by hanging. —The. challenger, us p ers o t accepting a challenge, is. declred . incapable ever ot holding or being elected to any office of profi, t er , trust, civil or military, within the territory r o sons. when entering upon the. duties pf office, a re e d swear or affirm, that they have never b ee n eng fi ' o o in a duel; either direaly or indirealy, in any whatever. MARRIED. •-' ir ge , On Thursday, George M. H oare , E sq . o f M o rclen • Surrey, to alias , Angelina Frances Greene, daughter o f r Greene, Esq. • , DIED. Cird' On the 23d ult. after a long illne ss , Mr. Edward ' • g isi eve; Merchant, of' Port s ea, m uc h* lamented by circle of relatives and friends. On Friday-morging, at Greenwich, William Collins. of jOon-street, Adell+o n h Saturday last, a p t hi. Dover, John - Kriap,' Esq. C 4' - and Paymaster of the Royal Miners Light-Infantry.,,, On Monday the Ist inst. Mrs. Hal, wife.of Mr- . Pill, of Stone's-End, Southwark, '9' • On the zi•inst. at Lymington, Miss Ann Crailan, age d third daughter of tne late mr. Crallan. ro v. On Tuesday. night, the ad inst. Mr. Stephen Grocer, of Piccadilly, aged ts ; he ma' seized with•'''i-or ,pleetic fit behind his counter, about f o u r o ' c l oc k in the a n re• noon, from which, by medical assistance, he was 5 1 - covered, but a returning fit the same night proved fat a m a y. On Friday se'nnight, in ClGriinel, the Rev;,Thhol li ,,,, ber : On the 2,5rh ult. at his house in Edinburgh, Mr- „": i ies• Spence, Dentist to His Royal Hi g h n es s t h e P r ince a ;dal measure. wYnca trap( oe avoided by a contrary, .1 procedurethe.witness that Colonel GrAana , hild certainly •so exp;•essied hi risell to him ; and' wither, that 4p,(Colonel'Graham) already had coin muoicated;rhe Circumstance to an officer at. Brigh , - ten, (Lieutelratir Colonel Whatley, of the Sow h GloucesterUilitia), whom Colonel Graham had given him (3,1 r. 411inan) to understand, officiated for the General of the'Distria, the General at that lime being absent, and who had said that he,Shouli communicate the -affair to the General as soon as he re!urnett. It also appeared, that Colonel Gra-• ,barn had proposed to -him to re ter the business' in respect to his son, to Lord 'Chichester, which proposal he bad rejected,•in consequence of It is•Lord 7 ship having previously expre.std an• opinion that his son would be wrong-, if he did not join his regiment. The witness also declared, that after the variety of remarks. thit his son's ciiiiduM had git en rise to, he felt that it would ` be more-vindicatory ,of his honour to. submit The whole the investigation of a• Court-Martial, in . preference to any reference wlet ev er. . Lieutenant Weir was then' called, :who deposed that he met Captain Ellman on the 17th of Septem ber, at Lewes ;- that he asked him if he intended to joiti his regiment at Brighton, when he answered that lie should not, unless Colonel Graham sent a file men alter him, which he understood he meant to do, when of course he should. join. . Samuel ,Gwynn, Esq . , was them called, but the Court was cleared of strangers upon . the first ques tion ; and when they, were re-admitted, • we. under.[ stood that Mr. Gwynn's evidence would bq trielevant to ,the specific charge, which only recognized the prisoner as holding a Captain's Commission ; and Mr—Gwynn therefore was dismissed,—Here closed the evidence for the prosecution. The prisoner now commenced his defence. • :liis opening address, which was of considerahie - lengih, ht read, and which appeared to have its due'etfeet upon the Court. Upon the first - charge he de fended himself by stating, that the mandate of the Lord Lieutenant did not apply to him, in respect to the mustering of the hattalion, as that was merely addressed to the Noti-cominiSsioned Officers, Syr- - jeants, &c. and the men enrolled ; his principal efforts were therefore direEted to weaken the torce of the second . charge. He . had been balloted to set Yr in the Perensey battalion originally, he admitted,' and that his father, to prove his zeal for so useful a branch of the service, had adviSed him to serve in a subordinase capacity; . that ,he had, however, paid the fine, and subsequently accepted a Commission in the centre battalion, when the fine he had - paid, contrary to his desire, had been returned „that he subsequently obtained a CapiainisCominission,w hich Commission, however, he had only beenlappri zed of since the corps had been embo,:ied in the present instance ; that on finding the corps was not to be 'mustered at Lewes, as heretotore; without feeling a wish to retire from the service, he sel;cited to ex-. change into the Pevensey battalion 'only, which had been denied ; and the. letter (which he read) that he had received from . Colonel Graham, 'in ati awer to one of his on the subject, had rendered it impossible for him, without betraying a want of spirit, any, longer to serve under that Officer; that he tendered his resignation in consequence, and •if he had pretnaturely acted upon his resigna tion so tendered, he trusted the Court would at tribute it to his inexperience in military ceremony, rather than to any other circumstance. The folloWing witnesses were called on the de-, fe nee Colonel Thomas, who deposed that an applica tion had been made to him by the privoner's lather,. on the subjed of Captain Ettman's reinoval-to the Pevensey battalion ; that . be afterwards communi cated the application to the Earl of Chichester, and ColOnel Giattatu. Lord. Chichester was then called, who confirmed what Col. Thomas had said, but observed thit he had said Capt. Ellaan had first to get his resigna tion accepted, and' then, and not till then, could he obtain the removal he desired. Mr. Ellman, senior, and Sir David \Vedder burne were severally called to give evidence on behaof the prisoner, but the Conit did not ap prove of the questions intersded to be. put to them,. and they were dismissed without being, heard. Lieutenant-Colonel . Cripps, and. Major IngraM, both spoke to the exemplary condud of the pri over while under their cominand last year; when the de fence was closed, and the Court adjourned till to morrow. AS soon as the Court-Martial was over, the cere mony. of the preseptation and consecration .of the colours of the centre battalion of the Sussex Local Militia took place on the level, to a crowded assem blage of spettaturs. The battalion is to be revieW ed by ,General.Hotistoun to-morrow. BRIGHTON, 'OCT, 4.--The Court-Martial at the Castle, for the trial of Capt. Ellman, of the centre Sussex Local Militia, was re-opened at twelve o'clock this day. The prisoner closed his defence yesterday ; combing therefore remained to be heard, but the concluding reply of Colonel Graham, which he read. He dwelt with some warmth upon that part of the defence wherein the prisoner stated that he had been induced to tender his resignation, in consequence of the letter that bad been sent to him on the subjeet of his solicited exchange into the. Pe vensey battalion, the language in which it was couched having been so. much disapproved; where as thp Colonel asserted that he had finally decided upon what conduct to adopt, prior to his having received that letter, which hejaid was proved, by his previous application for a removal to the Earl of Chichesier. . . The defence generally, the Colonel observed, was unsupported by evidence, and which therefore- re quired no refutation from him, ,as. the Court would decide trom the evidence betbre them,. though a few coptradictionsbetween some parts : of the evidence and the defence he pointed out. At the time that Capt. Ellman's tender of resignation was , made he said, several Officers - in the battalion had situilarly addressed him ; the compliance with their wishes at a time so unseasonable as when the regiment. was about ,to be called out; would have tended to the DEAF AND DUMB IMPOSTOR. It might almost have been admitted as a proverb, that whatever else a Man might have assumed as his character, that of a person -born deaf and dumb I could lie: er have been worth his -while, to have per severed in ; but Paris has lately seen an instance of this' imposture, and as the -history may be useful its it certainly is curious, we shall-, give it at some length. - UAW:6 Sicard bad received, in the course of last year, so many letters Iroin different ports of France in belialt of a young man who described tionself as one of his pupils; and who protesed to o gavelling float province to province, in search 01 his fatin.a. and to ascertain his fa9ily, that he thou ht proper to insert in the public papers a rote, d.t d .July.l2, - 1806, denying any knowledge of • such an individual, and cautioning-the..public agaaist.'. decept!ot.. The party was accordingly seized and imprisoned at La Rochelle. • This produced a.let ter from M. Vitior Serve, officer of the 66th regi ment, dated Rochelle, , Ocicber . lBo6, in which the, writer.describes himself as doing girtisonduty.in that city, part of which duty-consisted in visiting the prisons. He says he had seen' this young man,' who was about 25 or 26. years of age : his figure mild and expressive, his address noble and mo dest, his look doWncast, his cheeks not ruddy,'all his. features, as all his attitudes, wit netsiiia ° his misfor tune. He wept, and deeply affeeted all beholders,. who amounted to upwards of too. He-won every heart. His father emigrated, in 1792, his 'mother was legally assassinated the same .year ; a German named Vere--took him, and taught him the French language ; as well as he could. He died in 1802. Stich was his story. He called himself Victor. de Travanait. , The writer ,then .very solemnly attests his conviction that this . youth was born deaf and dumb. This letter being .signed, i &c. by the mayor, notary, &c. as authentic, the matter was submitted to the Counsellor of State,- and after some delay, the young man was ordered up to Paris, to be ex amined at the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. As he couldwrite, the Abbe naturally endeavoured, in the first instance, to judge, by his written answers to questions, whether he really was wh.:t he pre tended to be. His manner of spelling words con, vinced the Abbe at .once that he was an impostor; hut, in spite of all his attempts to render this pApable, . the youth eluded his design, and he obtained no . decisive proofs in the first examination. A second trial was not attended with greater conviction ; the young man conducted himself so correctly .as per reedy to counteract. suspicion. • Several days after wards, the youth was put to a third trial, at which the Abbe tried him by the easy syllables . which 'the deaf and dumb are taught first to pronounce, such as es. Victor pronounced the'Vowel, A, but not the consonant. He also acknowledged that he had been taught by signs ;, but he did not understand a single sign which was, : made to him. Convinced now, that be was not really deaf and dumb, the Abbe threateded to confront him with those per sons by whom he said he had been taught, and oilier friends whom lie bad mentioned ;,exposing fo hiM at the same time the numerous contrad ctions. of which he had been guilty. He 'denied all, and kept his countenance, but desired the examination might close. The next morning Victor, by writing, de sired that his examination might not be so public ; the company, accordingly. .being selected, Victor drew from his pocket apnper which he read with a loud and intelligible voice.—" These are the first words which have iL.sued from my mouth during four years."—He said that be would have preferred death to this confession ; that M. Sicard Was chosen to obtain the truth, that lie had been vadquiShed, that no other person should have vanquished Mtn.— " In, many.cities I have been subjected to.ditferent cruel experiments, but never has the smallest sym 'toms of surprise been seen in my couvenant.. At La Rochelle the warder •was directed to sleep 'with me; but even my dreams were never expressed A ith more thin . guttural sounds. Several times have . I been purpoiely awakened out of a sound sleep, lily alarm was, however, marked by nothing more than a plaintive croaking. The hundred prtscruers who , were wil4 me did all which had been &demi them in order to . surprise me.. In Switzerland, a yourig; rich, and beautitul woman offered to marry meal I would speak. I resisted every thing. Often haVe I . had the intention of roaming imp some wood/and living like a beast, At first I did so, I passed a whole month living on roots, potatoes,and wild fruits with out tasting bread. lam not Victor Travanait, but Victor Foy, of Lauzareehe, six leagues from Paris.'.' It will readily be supposed that this declaration, from a mouth which_ had been tour years closed, produced a great sensation among the auditory. -It produced no less sensation anioug-the'public ; and on Febru 7 - ary 24, 1807, the meeting of itl-w Institution was full add over full of persons curions'to see and hear what would pass. The Abbe Sicard was obliged to give a secoud sitting, after the.first was over; and to announce that he would give..a third, and is fourth I if necessary, in order that no individual might depart ished by WILLIAM A RMIGER SCRII, 3 PS, South Molton.street, Grosvenorasqui re. Lie Paper, Letters for the iditar &c. (postlaia), must be addressed. 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